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On average, it takes around twenty hours to prepare an expository sermon. When it is a difficult passage or topic, that time allotment increases. Twenty hours is a big chunk of a pastor’s week, but it is time well spent because the sermon is one of the most important weekly activities we undertake. But is our commitment to pastoral-preparation matched by our own congregational preparation? I’m not saying that every parishioner should give twenty hours a week to prepare to listen to a sermon, but shouldn’t there be some regular preparation in order to listen well? Continue reading →

How many times have you eaten roast-preacher for Sunday lunch? These kinds of banal banquets tend to consume the preacher, not the sermon. Much like the crowd who listened to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and were amazed because He … Continue reading →

We’ve all experienced it—when a preacher reads a passage of Scripture and then proceeds to teach any number of correct or erroneous things which have nothing to do with the passage he just read. Unfortunately, this happens more often than … Continue reading →

David sat in the front row of church, directly in front of the pulpit, straight back, chin raised, arms crossed, inverted smile, and eyes defiant. He didn’t seem to enjoy church very much. His conversations never focused on the sermon. … Continue reading →

When a preacher preaches, he must preach the Word of God (2 Timothy 4:1–4). Unfortunately, we know that’s not always the way it goes. From the beginning of time, false teachers have taught their own ideas instead of God’s. Jesus … Continue reading →